Shirt.



Unirse Patented May 9, 1905.

l atraer @erica SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,441, dated May 9, 1905.

Application filed December 30, 1903. Serial No. 187,223.

To (all '1U/wmf it 7111/047/ concern,.-

Be it known thatl, FREDRICK GUs'rAv M nn- 'I'INs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Augusta, in the county of `Richmond and State of (nreorgia, have invented new and useful lmprovernents in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to shirts, more particularly shirts having pockets at the backs of their neclibands to receive the base or body of a collar-lmtton. Y

As is well known, when shirts of the type mentioned are laundereiil the walls of the pockets frequently stick together, and hence it is very diliicult to separate the same without injury to one or both, this being particularly true after a shirt has become worn through repeated laundering'.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide, in combination with the button-pocket of a shirt, a linger-piece through the medium of which the walls of the pocket may be quickly and easily separated when set together and the pocket opened without in any way injuring the same.

Another object of the invention is to provide a linger-piece for the purpose stated adapted to serve the additional function of a necktie-holder.

lith thefforegoing in mind the invention will be fully understood from the following description and claims when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a detail rear elevation of a portion of a shirt constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view illustrating the pocket as open. Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. t is a view, similar' to Fig. 3, of a modification hereinafter referred to.

Referring by letter to said drawings and more particularly to Figs. l to if thereof, A is the necliband of a shirt, and B a buttonpocket formed at the back of the band and designed to receive the button through the niedium of which the bach of acollar is fastened to the band. The said pocket is preferably of the construction illustratedw. w., it comprises an inner or forward wall fr and an outer or back wall between the lower edges of which an opening' is afforded, as shown, to permit of a collar-button being readily placed in the buttonhole c, formed in the outer or back wall about midway the height thereof. C is the linger-piece, which .lf prefer to employ for the purpose of enabling a person to expeditiously open the pocket when the walls at 7) are stuck together without in any way injuring either wall. rlhis linger-piece is a strap of tape or other n'iaterial suitable to the purpose, which rests upright at one side of the buttonhole e and extends from a point considerably below the neekband A upwardly in the pocket B to a point at or adjacent to the upper end thereof. and hence consiilerably above the horizontal plane of the said buttonhole a. lt is connected to the shirt-body and the band A at its upper and lower ends alone through the medium of stitches Z and e or other suitable means, and from this it follows that it is adapted to serve the additional function of a necktie-holder--that is, to receive the band of a necktie and prevent upward movement thereof. ln virtue of the linger-piece extending up into the pocket B to a point above the plane of the buttonhole c and being' connected to the shirt at its upper and lower ends alone it will be observed that when a finger is inserted beneath the lower portion of the linger-piece and the same is drawn rearwardly it will serve to pull the wall away from the wall e and open the pocket throughout the heightthereof or at least to a point above the buttonhole c and this without tearing or in any other rnauner injuring either the wall a or the wall When the pocket is opened as stated, which operation may obviously be quickly and easily effected, a collar-button maybe conveniently placed in the hole c in the ordinary well-known manner.

Notwithstanding the fact that my improvements are calculated to materially prolong the usefulness of a shirt by preventing injury of the walls of the pocket incident to opening the same it will be readily noted that they do not appreciably increase the cost of the shirt.

lVhile l have described the buttonhole c as formed in the ou'fer or back wall of the pocket IOC B, it is obvious that said hole may be formed in the inner or forward wall of the pocket, and that consequently the finger-piece may be disposed at the inner instead of the outer side of the shirt without involving' departure from the scope of my invention.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have shown a modified linger-piece U. The said piece U', which may be of ribbon or other suitable material, is fastened at one end in the upper portion of the pocket B, is free at its opposite end, and is provided adjacent to said end with a buttonhole. From this it follows that subsequent to the placing' of a button in the hole in the rear wall of the pocket and the arrangement of a neckt-ie the piece C may be secured to the button, as illustrated, so as to surround and hold the tie against upward movement.

I have entered into a detailed description of the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embraced in the present and preferred embodiment of my invention in order to impart a full, clear, and exact understanding' of the same. I do not desire, however, to be understood as confining' myself to such specific construction and relative arrangement of parts, as such changes or modifications may be made in practice as fairly fall within the scope of my invention as claimed.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l. The combination in a shirt, of a neckband having a button-pocket open at its lower side and provided in one of its walls with a buttonhole, and a strap linger-piece extending up into the pocket, and connected at its upper end to the neckband, at a point above the plane of the buttonhole. and connected at its lower end to the shirt at a point below the neckband.

2. The combination in a shirt, of a neckband having' a bu tton-pocket open at its lower side and provided in one of its walls with a buttonhole, and a strap linger-piece extending up into the pocket, and connected at its upper end to the neckband, at a point above the plane of the buttonhole, and connected at its lower end to the shirt at a point below the i neckband; the portion of the strap fingerpiece intermediate of the connected ends thereof being loose from the shirt.

3. The combination in a shirt, of a neckband having' a button-pocket open at its lower side and provided in one of its walls with a buttonhole, and a linger-piece secured in the upper portion of the pocket and depending below the pocket, through the medium of which the pocket may be expeditiously7 opened without injury to either wall thereof.

4. The combination in a shirt, of a neckband having a button-pocket open at its lower side and provided in one of its walls with a buttonhole, and a finger-piece secured at one end in the portion of the pocket above the plane of the buttonhole and depending below said pocket.

5. A shirt having a band provided with a pocket and also having a buttonhole-opening through a wall of said pocket, and a tab secured to the outer buttonhole-wall of said pocket and projecting beyond the latter.

6. The combination in a shirt, of a neckband having a button-pocket open at its lower side and provided in one of its walls with a buttonhole, and a linger-piece secured in the upper portion of the pocket and depending' below the pocket.

7. The combination in a shirt, of a neckband having a button-pocket open at its lower side and provided in one of its walls with a buttonhole, and a linger-piece connected to the buttonhole-wall of the pocket and depending below the pocket.

FREDRICK GUS'IAV MERTINS.

IVitnesses:

W. C. TURNER, JAS. IV. BnAsLuY. 

